{"id":9631,"date":"2021-10-25T19:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinekowalanimalfamily.com\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2021-11-01T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:30:07","slug":"ive-gotten-off-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/ive-gotten-off-track\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirits All Showed Up In My Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-copy-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-copy-4.jpeg 255w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-copy-4-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-copy-4-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>I&#8217;d Never Seen This Before<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1677.jpg 640w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1677-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#8216;The Spirits All Showed Up In My Backyard&#8217; 11&#8243; x 15&#8243;  Acrylic paint on paper By Christine Kowal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I walked out my side door and my back yard was&nbsp;filled with spirits. It was a rainy morning, and a group of them&nbsp;were huddled&nbsp;in and around and&nbsp;the gazebo.<\/strong>&nbsp;This was a first for me. I didn&#8217;t really know what to do. It was a bit shocking and a bit exciting,&nbsp;so I just asked them what they wanted?&nbsp;I figured they&#8217;d found me or rather God had sent them my way so &nbsp;they&#8217;d found me for a reason.<br><br><br><strong>And by the way, if it wasn&#8217;t God Love Light Jesus Christ&nbsp;the Holy Spirit that had directed them my way,&nbsp;they weren&#8217;t staying.<\/strong><br><br><br><strong>Apparently they had some unfinished business. They wanted me to do something for them. It was very simple,<\/strong>&nbsp;I can&#8217;t remember what it was now.&nbsp;Anyway first I asked God if this was alright since my experience with spirits on their way home to God up to this point had always been&nbsp;one on one. And he said yes it was fine.&nbsp;I had to get in my car and go to the shopping mall next door to deliver what ever message it was and by the time I got home they were all gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_0050.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_0050.jpg 466w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_0050-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">&#8216;<strong>Leo And Me&#8217;  Photographed by Andrew Hunt<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why am I telling you this weird story right now. Well life is kinda&nbsp;weird right now. It&#8217;s certainly very weird for me or has been, I&#8217;m starting to understand that I have to shift gears.<\/strong>&nbsp;The life I had once imagined for myself is going to be very different. The world has changed and is changing.&nbsp;And at first I was terrified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I read The New Testament and Eckhart Tolle one after the other. The Bible is a living document that speaks to me&nbsp;and teaches me&nbsp;about Jesus and how to live through him.<\/strong> Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s book teaches me how to go deeper and understand how to listen to The Kingdom of Heaven Within that Jesus left inside of me and everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When I can put myself into that place of presence, into the now,<\/strong> take myself out of my mind and all of the things that have happened and everything that might happen&nbsp;and&nbsp;focus on The Kingdom of Heaven&nbsp;Within me, the all knowing Consciousness within, the Holy Spirit, your word,&nbsp;I can feel the stillness and I know I&#8217;ll get there from here, where ever there might be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-646x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-768x1217.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-969x1536.jpg 969w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-1292x2048.jpg 1292w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeus-12-copy-scaled.jpg 1615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is my friend Zalman after his physical body died he\/ his spirit is&nbsp;going down a big orange corridor with a big bright yellow white light at the end.<\/strong>&nbsp;Change is hard for me. I like a certain amount of stability or constancy in my life. I will also say I was not always this way. I use to love a great adventure. So I guess this is not our choice we are all on this&nbsp;Great Adventure together. I am finding the key for me is I to believe and have faith and I practice being present and living from The Kingdom of God Within, Consciousness, your word.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2621.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1312\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8216;White Kitty&#8217; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a05&#8217;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0x 7&#8242; Oil paint on canvas, \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Part of the Craven Rd. Fence Project<br><br>Although this kitty looks like she&#8217;s almost done. She actually got a few more staples and stayed up for quite a while longer.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<strong>The Animals Believe and have Faith. I get a lot of my strength from my Animal Family.<\/strong><br><br><br><br>These are my two books<strong>:<\/strong><br><br><strong>&#8216;The Bible&#8217; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0NIV \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0New International Version<\/strong><br><br><strong>&#8216;The Power Of Now&#8217; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0By Eckhart Tolle<\/strong><br><br>There is a reason that the world is the way it is right now. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t know why that is only God knows. But what I do know is that we&#8217;ve gotten off track, I&#8217;ve gotten off track. And I&#8217;m working very hard to listen to that still small voice inside of me now and in each moment and live on track.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<br><br><strong>Love and Light\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><br><br>Christine And The Animals<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d Never Seen This Before &#8216;The Spirits All Showed Up In My Backyard&#8217; 11&#8243; x 15&#8243; Acrylic paint on paper By Christine Kowal I walked out my side door and my back yard was&nbsp;filled with spirits. It was a rainy morning, and a group of them&nbsp;were huddled&nbsp;in and around and&nbsp;the gazebo.&nbsp;This was a first for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/ive-gotten-off-track\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Spirits All Showed Up In My Backyard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,31,421],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-god","tag-love","tag-spirit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}